B744 crash in East Ayrshire on 7 June 2018 at 10:30 involving a Yamaha GPD 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha GPD 125 motorcycle crashed on the B744 in East Ayrshire at 10:30 on Thursday 7 June 2018. The 39-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2018
- Thursday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha GPD 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58033, longitude -4.38566, in the KA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UC00306
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 744
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 February 1995.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 25 February 1995
64 m awayRef 199597UC90602
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 18 January 1996
129 m awayRef 199697UC90501
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 26 March 1998
286 m awayRef 199897UC05203
Slight
Car crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 20 April 1998
338 m awayRef 199897UC03304
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 15 December 2009
532 m awayRef 200997UC03012
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 18 August 2001
563 m awayRef 200197UC03508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD 125)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201897UC00306 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2018.